Body of Writing: Figuring Desire in Spanish American Literature

René Prieto

Published by Duke University Press 2000

Body of Writing

Figuring Desire in Spanish American Literature

René Prieto

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822380726

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About this book

A psychoanalytic exploration through a series of reading of Latin American fiction of Roland Barthes' contention that literary texts have human form and are always an anagram of our erotic body.

Author / Editor information

René Prieto is Professor of Foreign Languages and Literature at Southern Methodist University. He is the author of Miguel Angel Asturias’s Archaeology of Return.

Reviews

“Body of Writing is the most advanced piece of criticism on Latin American literature available. Prieto’s unique mixture of theoretical sophistication with elegance of mind and style makes him soar above today’s cacophonous cackle. I know of no better critic of Latin American literature than him.”—Roberto González-Echevarría, author of Myth and Archive: A Theory of Latin American Narrative

“A most significant contribution to Spanish American literary criticism. Prieto is a gifted scholar with an unusual talent for reading texts.”—William Luis, author of Dance Between Two Cultures: Latino Caribbean Literature Written in the United States

“Original, witty and passionate, Body of Writing is sure to interest Hispanists and non-Hispanists alike. I can think of few Latin Americanists capable of producing readings as energetic and elegant as Prieto's.”—Gustavo Pérez Firmat, author of Next Year in Cuba and Life on the Hyphen

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
1 Julio Cortázar’s perpetual exile Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	17
2 More than meets the I: Guillermo Cabrera Infante’s La Habana para un Infante difunto Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	75
3 The excremental vision of Gabriel García Márquez Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	101
4 The degraded body in the work of Severo Sarduy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	135
5 Rewriting the body: renewal through language in the work of Rosario Castellanos Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	173
6 The body of pleasure in Tununa Mercado’s Canon de alcoba Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	213
Conclusion Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	240
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	255
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	275
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	285

Language: English
Publisher: Duke University Press
Pages
- Main content: 308

eBook

Published: April 11, 2000
ISBN: 9780822380726